2018

Posted on March 3, 2018 by Jo Beall

deep dark mystery

dances with infinite luminosity

in spacious emptiness

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as this silent re-treat of lovingkindness draws to a close, i reflect on this serene sojourn in the quantum field of deep dark mystery where i saunter along a path unknown, a dancing with infinite luminosity resting in the gap, in the sacred space of silence, the stillpoint…

in this field beyond words, beloved appears to breathe us alive, inspiring we hollow reeds to open to being conduits of divine flow responsive to taking one more step, encouraging our sitting tenderly in the moment with our feelings, our ancestral feelings, our descendants’ feelings all merging in the one cosmic devocean of now…

in this solitude, in this divine alchemical flowing temple, the daft (divine alchemical flow team) transmute our shadowlands into gardens of grace… watered by our tears, we blossom like flow-ers opening to the light and revealing the sparkling jewel, the polished star pearl of the sea, radiantly resting in the center of the bloom…

here in the black hole of great silence, in the dancing stillness of great mystery, we stand at the portal of a brave new world where we’re called to courageously let go the old and break our one heart wide open to expansive, creative space for birthing to the new…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 76 – 3/2/2018

Posted on March 2, 2018 by Jo Beall

deep in the retreat field of lovingkindness, feeling the call to comfort the suffering through witnessing presence…

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May I Be a Guard

May I be a guard for those who need protection
A guide for those on the path
A boat, a raft, a bridge for those who wish to cross the flood
May I be a lamp in the darkness
A resting place for the weary
A healing medicine for all who are sick
A vase of plenty, a tree of miracles
And for the boundless multitudes of living beings
May I bring sustenance and awakening
Enduring like the earth and the sky
Until all beings are free from sorrow
And all are awakened.

Prayed every morning by His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet

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may our hearts burst open in unconditional love

may our minds be illumined by a peace passing all understanding

may our spirits touch all that is with our transforming radiant presence

namaste, beloveds…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 75 – 3/1/2018

Posted on March 1, 2018 by Jo Beall

welcome to this new moon of meditative march which auspiciously begins on the full moon and on the final day of celebrating Losar with Chotrul Duchen, the day of miracles when it’s a day to offer light…

The Light of Smiles

I will light the match of smiles. My gloom veil will disappear. I shall behold my soul in the light of smiles hidden behind the accumulated darkness of ages. When I find myself, I shall race through all hearts with the torch of my soul-smiles. My heart will smile first, then my eyes, then my face. Every body part will shine in the light of smiles.

I will run amid the thickets of melancholy hearts and make a bonfire of all sorrows. I am the irresistible fire of smiles. I will fan myself with the breeze of God-joy and blaze my way through the darkness of all minds. My smiles will convey His smiles and whoever meets me will catch a whiff of my divine joy. I will carry fragrant, purifying torches of smiles for all hearts.

from Metaphysical Meditations
by Paramahansa Yogananda

yes, may we all travel in an awakened way with hearts wide open and filled with lovingkindness… may we be well and peaceful and at ease and happy…

om shanti, shanti, shantihi…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 74 – 2/28/2018

Posted on February 28, 2018 by Jo Beall

this virgo full moon in pisces calls us home to our collective heart, our one radiant heart accessed in the field beyond, the field of creative imagination where everything is possible and all is well in this field of grace…

saunter with me into this magical field, this field of transformation and bathe in the purifying light of sister moon… now, raise your arms above your head with palms curled toward the moon… we are sacred chalice drawing down full moon’s power to give, to receive, to nurture, to transform, to manifest our soul song…

now, drawing our hands onto our one heart, we are one with moon goddess tuned into her service, healing and magical energies… breathe in the dark smoke encircling the cosmos holding it in sacred chalice’s circle of light, breathe it out as pure white light… breathe in the fear of wild out of control forces, breathe out the empowered strength and grace to co-create a healthy world of harmony and radiance…

seeing the cosmos bathed in divine light, transformed into love’s pure delight, bring your arms home to the sides of your body with palms facing down toward the earth and send this radiant light of our the round full moon deep into earth’s watery womb…

listen to new world breathing…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 73 – 2/27/2018

Posted on February 27, 2018 by Jo Beall

Journeys bring power and love back into you. If you can’t go somewhere, move in the passageways of the self. They are like shafts of light, always changing, and you change when you explore them.

~ Rumi ~

This is the bright home
in which I live,
this is where
I ask
my friends
to come,
this is where I want
to love all the things
it has taken me so long
to learn to love.

This is the temple
of my adult aloneness
and I belong
to that aloneness
as I belong to my life.

There is no house
like the house of belonging.

~ David Whyte ~

there is no space like the space between us,

boundless love, beloveds…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 72 – 2/26/2018

Posted on February 26, 2018 by Jo Beall

another day of silence, of listening to the bubbling brook, the cosmic hum…

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veils lift, doors open

on divine devotion day

cosmic revelation

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yes, today is a day of devotion, of leaping into the void of creation lying in the lap of the divine bathed in the bliss of love culminating in a moment of illumination when what no longer serves is burned away as the great silence whispers to us of our soul purpose, why we are here awakening us to the song of the true self, to our soul song…

everything is alive… everything is awakening… everything is moving…. everything is dancing… be still, silent… listen….

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 71 – 2/25/2018

Posted on February 25, 2018 by Jo Beall

#NeverAgain

#ParklandStrong

this week’s edition of sharing an image of the astonishing light of being must go to the students of Parkland and across the land who know enough is enough and inspire us all to see the violence must end here and now…

may we all join in their March For Our Lives Movement and in singing their song, Shine…

You’re not gonna knock us down
We’ll get back up again
You may have hurt us but I promise we are stronger and
We’re not gonna let you win
We’re putting up a fight
You may have brought the dark
But together we will shine the light

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 70 – 2/24/2018

Posted on February 24, 2018 by Jo Beall

In Silence

Be still.
Listen to the stones of the wall.
Be silent, they try
To speak your

Name.
Listen
To the living walls.
Who are you?
Who
Are you? Whose
Silence are you?

Who (be quiet)
Are you (as these stones
Are quiet). Do not
Think of what you are
Still less of
What you may one day be.
Rather
Be what you are (but who?) be
The unthinkable one
You do not know.

O be still, while
You are still alive,
And all things live around you
Speaking (I do not hear)
To your own being,
Speaking by the Unknown
That is in you and in themselves.

“I will try, like them
To be my own silence:
And this is difficult. The whole
World is secretly on fire. The stones
Burn, even the stones
They burn me. How can a man be still or
Listen to all things burning? How can he dare
To sit with them
When all their silence
Is on fire?”

~ Thomas Merton ~

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 69 – 2/23/2018

Posted on February 23, 2018 by Jo Beall

The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao
The name that can be named is not the eternal name
The nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth
The named is the mother of myriad things

Thus, constantly free of desire
One observes its wonders
Constantly filled with desire
One observes its manifestations

These two emerge together but differ in name
The unity is said to be the mystery
Mystery of mysteries, the door to all wonders

~ Lao Tzu ~

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it is said it takes three days for the body to settle when on retreat, for the rainmaker, the rainbowmaker to come into harmony, for the re-joy-sing…

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rise up singing kissed by sun

river dancing always dreaming magic to come

gliding over stones, nothing impedes the flow

wind whispers softly to lean in and let all go

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river dancing always dreaming magic to come

earth giving thanks tuning into celestial hum

wind whispers softly to lean in and let all go

light shines brilliantly plugged into cosmic glow

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earth giving thanks tuning into celestial hum

for the beautiful field of love that we have become

light shines brilliantly plugged into cosmic glow

trusting in the rhythm of eternal ebb and flow

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rise up singing kissed by sun

river dancing always dreaming magic to come

trusting the rhythm of eternal ebb and flow…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 68 – 2/22/2018

Posted on February 22, 2018 by Jo Beall

on this day of the 22nd, a day vibrating at the frequency of grace, i turn to the familiar tale of hamsa or humso, beautiful swan embodying grace while chanting so hum, i am that… light and love…

once upon a time, little swan was resting in a pool in dreamtime… she looked up and saw a swirling black hole, the biggest one ever… in that moment, dragonfly appeared in the sky and swan inquired about the black hole to which dragonfly told her it is the doorway to the great beyond and to enter you must ask permission and earn the right…

little swan wasn’t sure she wanted to enter the black hole so she asked dragonfly what’s necessary to cross the portal and dragonfly told her she must accept whatever comes just as it is presenced without editing one iota of great spirit’s design…

little swan looked down at her ugly duckling body and replied that she’d graciously accept great spirit’s design and would not resist the currents of the black hole… she affirmed she would surrender to divine flow trusting in the present moment… her answer pleased dragonfly who began to spin a spell of magic engulfing little swan in a whirpool in the center of the pond…

when swan reappeared days later, she was transformed into a beautiful being of grace… dragonfly was shocked and wanted to know what had happened to which swan replied that she learned how to surrender to the power of great mystery, to surrender to the grace of the rhythm of the universe…

may we all let go and undam flow…

Abundance Created Together (ACT)

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess. – Rainer Maria Rilke –

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Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 74 – 2/28/2018

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 73 – 2/27/2018

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 72 – 2/26/2018

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 71 – 2/25/2018

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 70 – 2/24/2018

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 69 – 2/23/2018

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 68 – 2/22/2018